On behalf of our Board of Trustees, welcome to our website! The State of California is undergoing a number of changes which will impact our district in a positive way. Many of these changes refer to the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF), and the Local Control Action Plan (LCAP). These acronyms will be seen frequently in the future, as the district moves toward more local control of the programs that are offered in Wasco.

For our district, this provides a method by which we can re-establish the culture of our district and offer a wider variety of program to our students. We anticipate that the board will prioritize our plan expenditures soon and new programs will be underway next year. For this year we are attempting to return to the staffing we had before the major cuts took place, and balance the needs of the students with the priorities of the community.

This is a training and planning year, as the standards for students have also been realigned, to a level that is equal to about half the states in the United States, instead of only California. We anticipate being fully implemented next year to these new standards, and this year we have a very large number of teachers being trained in the new standards with the plan to implement beginning the next school year. Along with these changes there will be a new statewide test that students will take on computers. We will pilot this test this spring and the scores will not be reported for individuals this year. Next year the test will be reported for schools, districts, and individual students.

We look forward to the challenge of the new year and the changes the state is incorporating, as these changes will benefit the students of Wasco.